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France’s Combustible Climate Politics(nytimes.com)
4 points by Jun8 8y ago|2 comments
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by Jun8 8y ago
Maybe I missed in the article but it seems they're not using 3D modeling. Why not, esp. considering the prevalence of cheap 3D sensors? According to Google there are many people working in this area (as well as shoe fitting). The goal
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"I needed a biography of somebody, so I went to the library. Unfortunately, the biography was not where it was supposed to be, but next to the spot was a biography of Lev Davidovich Landau." This is why we have and should continue
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France fuel protests(google.com)
2 points by Jun8 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 8y ago
It's interesting to read the open letter that 67 researchers posted on Buzzfeed that's referred to in the article (article calls them social scientists but there are many people from biology and related fields: https://
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by Jun8 8y ago
Obligatory list of some good quotes that are not included: Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. - M.A. Jackson Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle
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by Jun8 8y ago
Discussion on r/ML from six months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8d72cu/d_p... One humorous point was someone complaining about the acronym GAN in ML because it sounds offen
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by Jun8 8y ago
Love the idea, have one for me, too (got rejected twice in olden times)! Here's a thought: would it be interesting to form a group of YC rejects (with an email list, etc.), an aftermarket of sorts? Maybe they can do a Pitch Day on HN a
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by Jun8 8y ago
Very interesting result on the gender-equality paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox ). Here is the original paper in Science: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362&#x2F
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When Times Are Good, the Gender Gap Grows(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by Jun8 8y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 8y ago
Very cool. 10-20 years ago it was quite common in Istanbul to see a similar method of divination but done with a rabbit! Haven't seen them for some time but here's a recent video of the operation: https://www.youtube.co
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by Jun8 8y ago
Years ago I was at a Chipotle and while chowing down looked at my cup. They had an interesting text there, called "2 minute personality test" by Jonathan Safran Foer. I loved that test because, for the first time, I saw in print a
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by Jun8 8y ago
This is awesome! Some people don't like having a Plan B along these lines because they think it distracts with the standard approach of emission reduction. In reality, for something this important (i.e. Keter level destruction event) w
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by Jun8 8y ago
Exactly, and you have to know when to let go, a la Seinfeld. Adventure Time handled this very well, I think: told what they had to tell and ended after that. Another canonical good example exiting at the right time is Calvin and Hobbes.
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Ask HN: How to create a DSL to represent clothing?
1 points by Jun8 8y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 8y ago
Your point about irrational thought brought to mind this Turing quote I really like: "If we want a machine to be intelligent, it can't also be infallible." source: Lecture to the London Mathematical Society on 20 February 194
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by Jun8 8y ago
There you go, I just saw this on Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/project/2428-single-chip-avr-basic-compu...
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This was a fantastic talk, thanks for linking! One interesting takeaway: As you play create random juxtaposition of ideas and see if anyone makes sense. It's good that some of these are crazy. He talks about the concept of "interm
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Build your own gel electrophoresis device from scratch with common materials(exploratorium.edu)
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by Jun8 8y ago
It seems like, to many people AI = ML = Deep Learning. Depending on cluelessness level the executive you talk to they may add CV to the equality, too. Back in the day we called ML "Pattern Recognition", I remember taking the cours
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Tall Tales: Secrets of the Tower – Cambridge Library’s Tower Collection(cam.ac.uk)
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by Jun8 8y ago
Would it be possible to build your own, e.g. something like the one shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=104&v=Sq7GaO8iqu... ?
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by Jun8 8y ago
Yes, but scope could be larger: If you like chatting with someone you can add them to your contacts. Another take on this would be voice-based reddit, e.g. voice chat rooms organized around topics, similar to subreddits. Everybody takes tur
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by Jun8 8y ago
Some ideas: 1. Social Silo-busters: Couple the evils of the garden walled social network approach with posts on how hard is it to make friends later in life, add a pinch of all that useless time spent in the car commuting (scraping the bott
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by Jun8 8y ago
You can see a TED talk by one of the founders demonstrating the plant spikerbox here, throughly awesome: https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_electrical_experiments_w...
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Neuron Spikerbox(backyardbrains.com)
1 points by Jun8 8y ago|1 comments
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Link to NSF announcement, with extra information: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=295968&org=NS... Here's a paper from one of the professors: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2F
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by Jun8 8y ago
My favorite, too! Here you can hear her read AGMIHTF: https://bavatuesdays.com/flannery-oconnor-on-southern-litera... . Coming face to face with this story first time is stunning! My favorite story of hers is "The Geran
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by Jun8 8y ago
Lauren Myracle (author of ttyl listed here) has an interesting essay on the subject of book banning: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lauren-myracle/im-with-the-ba... Also, Heartbreak Soup is excellent!
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by Jun8 8y ago
Here's my (simplistic) take: Believing in God (this word is problematic because it has many different uses) is an axiom, it doesn't need to be, or indeed can be, "proven". You just accept it as given as see what logical

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